Your Christmas list covered. Every detail was thoughtfully considered in The Elephant Map Project, and every vignette tells an important story. For one, elephants are the gardeners of Africa. The savannah as we know it depends on them, for as the world’s largest land mammal migrates through the African continent, the side effects of their oversized footprints are invaluable. Find out why (link in bio).
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Every map purchase gives elephants a chance to grow old in the wild. 100% net profits support @dswt’s vital work.
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magnificent creature. .!! Credit : @shaunmousley - You don’t often see two almost perfectly symmetrical tusks on a big bull. Often there is one larger or more curved that the other. Elephants also favor one side over the other similar to humans being left or right handed, as a result one is often more worn down. For info about promoting your elephant art or crafts, send me a direct message @elephant.gifts or email elephantgifts@outlook.com . Follow @elephant.gifts for inspiring elephant images and videos every day! . .

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The Mara elephants are very fond of eating Acacia gerrardii and have tricks for reaching the tasty growing tips.
They can reach for the highest branches with their trunk or they can just push the whole tree over.
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Want to learn more about elephant behavior? Visit our website www.elephantvoices.org or click the link in our bio.
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He is the coolest in Thailand - Mr Moo how did he celebrate ? totally chilled , of course - deep in the forest is where he is happiest
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Happy World Elephant Day! Elephants are among the world's most intelligent species. They grieve, they learn, they love, they use tools, they have compassion and are self-aware. Over and over again, we have seen them embrace a new orphan, welcoming them into the Reteti herd, and helping them adjust after the terrible trauma of being separated from their mother. Today, on World Elephant Day, we celebrate their incredible, boundless love. We also renew our efforts to protect them.
Join us by making a contribution to Reteti today at prizeo.com/elephants. (Link in profile.) You might even win a trip to visit the sanctuary yourself.
In this photo, Reteti Keeper Mary Lengees shares a moment with Shaba. Mary is one of the first Samburu women elephant keepers in all of Africa and Shaba is the proxy matriarch for the Reteti herd, loving and caring about all the others.
Photo by @amivitale.

We’re taking a breather today. .
In the video is our beautiful Momma and her curious baby boy, Choke. We rescued Choke and Natalie when he was 4 months. To be able to see him grow up into this beautiful bubble of happiness is exactly why we do what we do. .
If you want to co tribute to the cause, visit the link on our bio and donate. Every cent from our project is going into rescuing and the medical expenses for Thong Kam, a working elephant in Krabi.
Via : @elephantjunglesanctuary
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our Gossip Girls are enjoying a spa day , and don’t they deserve it? from logging and trekking camps , now they live as they choose - and today they have chosen a fabulous powder shower xxx
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“This photo was one of the first ones I ever took (Poulomee says) I had barely settled into our digs for the night when this herd just walked by. Completely oblivious to the humans around them. Just walking through the marshes in Amboseli one step at a time
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It’s heartbreaking to know that even today EVERY 20 minutes one of these beautiful animals is slaughtered for trinkets. If we don’t prevent this massacre, they will only exist in picture books and memory. This World Elephant Day, lets make sure that doesn’t come to pass. Trunks up for Ellies everyone!”
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by @poulomee_basu_photography
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Today is , a time to raise awareness and take action to protect in the wild & in captivity. Pictured: Asian bull Prince, retired from the circus to @PAWSARK2000 . https://conta.cc/2vvBOw1
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Have you been to Ruaha National Park and spent time with elephants? If so, we would love to see your photos! Use the hashtag for any elephant photos you post on Instagram and you may be featured on our page!
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We are currently in the process of building Mundi's barn! Once the barn is finished, we'll be ready to bring Mundi to ERNA to live and thrive. Help us build the barn -- donate or become a team fundraiser today by visiting the link in the bio. .
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The most positive news for elephants in the last six months has been the final closure of ivory markets in China and the decision to close the Hong Kong markets over a five-year period. But that doesn’t mean the Ivory Crisis is over. Although the tide is slowly turning, much more needs to be done. A combination of visionary support, collaboration between governments and NGOs and an integrated approach is helping but we still have a long way to go in our struggle to save elephants. As we celebrate World Elephant Day, read how our valiant partners are battling the ivory crisis across Africa and Asia in our new Elephant Crisis Fund report out today by clicking on the link in the bio. Cover photo: @acsafaris
Via : @savetheelephants
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It’s here...World Elephant Day! And I am so happy that we are part of the festivities! Please support and continue to spread the word to protect these beautiful creatures! Repost from @dswtfosterparents using @RepostRegramApp - @onegreenplanet
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The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust ( @DSWT) is the world’s leading elephant conservation organization. A pioneer in the field, they have perfected hand-rearing orphaned elephants, rehabilitating them, and successfully returning them to their natural habitat. DSWT also has poaching patrol units to monitor and protect the elephants after they are released.

One of their earlier success stories involves a mischievous little baby elephant named Ajok, who was rescued in 1990 when he was just a few days old. Those who knew Ajok as a baby describe him as the “original Nursery clown” and a “prankster” who loved to play games, like taking hats off visitors’ heads. Too cute!

Ajok shows us the undeniable similarities and loving bond elephants have with humans, and he is a wonderful example of why we all must fight to save elephants.
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#RepostSave@beatiful.elephants with @repostsaveapp ・・・ I’m too excited and can’t wait any longer, it’s the 12th August and I have had my “World Elephant Day” tribute ready all week to post!
World Elephant Day means the preservation and protection of elephants. I’m honoured and humbled to have shared so many incredible moments with these incredible and beautiful animals. Not to mention with some wonderful elephant friends too. Let’s all keep our voices loud and our message clear to help save and protect elephants and to support the NGOs out there, around the world, who are doing an amazing job rescuing, caring, saving, researching elephants (to help in human wildlife conflict) and loving elephants.
HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAYS FRIENDS.
Fiona Via : @elephant_stories_with_fiona
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He is the coolest in Thailand - Mr Moo how did he celebrate ? totally chilled , of course - deep in the forest is where he is happiest
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Happy World Elephant Day! This beautiful wild herd in Tsavo, humans must protect elephants from poaching and abuse so we can continue to witness scenes like this in the wild.
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We are currently in the process of building Mundi's barn! Once the barn is finished, we'll be ready to bring Mundi to ERNA to live and thrive. Help us build the barn -- donate or become a team fundraiser today by visiting the link in the bio. .
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I’m too excited and can’t wait any longer, it’s the 12th August and I have had my “World Elephant Day” tribute ready all week to post!
World Elephant Day means the preservation and protection of elephants. I’m honoured and humbled to have shared so many incredible moments with these incredible and beautiful animals. Not to mention with some wonderful elephant friends too. Let’s all keep our voices loud and our message clear to help save and protect elephants and to support the NGOs out there, around the world, who are doing an amazing job rescuing, caring, saving, researching elephants (to help in human wildlife conflict) and loving elephants.
HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAYS FRIENDS.
Fiona Via : @elephant_stories_with_fiona
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For those who come to Koh Samui to visit its famous water fall, one can also take a picture of this beautiful bull who stands in a small pen for tourists to see.
His name is Plai Bang. He was separated from his mother at the age of 2. His first work was to greet hotel guests at a famous hotel in Samui. He did this until he became too big for that service at the age of 7. He was moved to do tourist-bearing work at this water fall until he was 20 years old. For whatever reasons, 5 years ago Plai Bang attacked another bull during the work day. He has been chained in this small pen since that day. Plai Bang is a very handsome bull at 25 years old, but he has lost his soul. He stands and rocks like this, short-chained, ad infinitum.
We have visited him several times last year to try to find a resolution for him. I am happy to speak the good news that, in his 25th year, we will be giving this boy back his freedom. We have leased 7 acres of land next to Samui Elephant Haven and stay under care of this project.Thank you to all contributors at the Gray Event hosted by Pascal Olhats
Funds raised will be used to bring Plai Bang back to life. Thank you also to Rebecca Alexander who shared funds to help lease the land. We will now try to find more funds to fence the land and to build a chain free enclosure for him. He is surely a fortunate boy !
The truth is that, for virtually all captive bulls, their lives are a misery, a living hell. They work very hard, drugged or under a heavy hand. They are shackled and beaten. They live a dispirited existence. It is our hope that one day kindness will be shown to them, and measures taken to bring them out of their suffering.
Until then, this renewal for Plai Bang can stand as a marker of care, and of respectful and appropriate management for this captive Giant.

#HappyWorldElephantDay
I love elephants! It's my favorite animal because elephants are incredible intelligent and emotional creatures. But did you know one Elephant dies every 15 minutes? That's 96 Elephants a day!
Elephants are emotional creatures and they are actually more similar to us humans. They display emphaty and mourn deaths in their herd. They have strong maternal instincts and close-knit family bonds. They even have long, sharp memories.
Elephants also play a huge role in the ecosystem by seeding the land and creating new pathways for other species. Without them many are effected!

Due to many Elephants life are in danger from poaching, ivory trafficking and human-wildlife conflict, their habitats are shrinking. We somehow need people to become reacquainted with nature or they can have no clue as to the interrelatedness of cause and effect

The most positive news for elephants in the last six months has been the final closure of ivory markets in China and the decision to close the Hong Kong markets over a five-year period. But that doesn’t mean the Ivory Crisis is over. Although the tide is slowly turning, much more needs to be done. A combination of visionary support, collaboration between governments and NGOs and an integrated approach is helping but we still have a long way to go in our struggle to save elephants. As we celebrate World Elephant Day, read how our valiant partners are battling the ivory crisis across Africa and Asia in our new Elephant Crisis Fund report out today by clicking on the link in the bio. Cover photo: @acsafaris
Via : @savetheelephants
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